Photographic camera.



J. GODDARD & W. S. HUTCHINGS.

Patented Apr. 16, 19l&

i 'zzazw/ UNITED STATES PATENT oFEIoE.

JOSEPH GODDARD AND WILLIAM S. EUTCHINGS, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGN- 038 TO SENECA CAMERA MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK,

A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

PHOTOGRAPHIC CAMERA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 16, 1918.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, Josarn GODDARD and WILLIAM S. HUTCHINGS, citizens of the United States, residin at Rochester, in the count of Monroe an State of New York, have invented new and useful Im rovements in Photographic Cameras, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in photographic cameras and more especially to those of the roll holding type having compartments for the spools. to which the respective ends of thefilm are attached.

The primary object of the invention is to provide improved means for mounting and retaining t e film spools in their respective compartments whereb the construction of the camera is simpl' ed and rendered less expensive, and the operations of loading and unloading the camera are facilitated.

Heretofore, it has been usual to mount the film spools in their respective compartments upon pivots which entered recesses in the ends of the s ools, it being necessary to retract one of he pivots for each spool preparatory to the insertion or removal of each spool. Such a construction is relatively expensive and it requires manual manipulation by the user of the camera in loading and unloading it. According to the present invention these disadvantages which have been found to exist are obviated, by roviding the opposite inner walls of eac s ool compartment with grooves or guides lea ing to appropriately located bearings and adapted to receive and cooperate with ivots which project axially from the ends 0 each spool to direct such pivots to the bearings in which they rotate, and by providing on the removable back or cover, which normally closes the s 001 compartments, studs or projections w ich during application of the back or cover enter the grooves or guides in the casing and cooperate with the projecting ivots of the respective spools to retain the atter in correct osition. By arranging the grooves in para lel relation and correspondingly arranging the retaining studs, t e latter also serve as guiding means to insure the correct ap lication of the back or cover relatively to t e casing. By mounting these spool' retaining studs or projections on the removable back or cover, the

spools are automatically retained or released by the respective acts of a pl in and removing the back, hence obviatii he necessity of separately manipulating t e spool retaining means, as heretofore'required.

To these and other ends, the invention consists in certain improvements, and combinations and arrangements of arts, all as will be hereinafter more fully d scribed, the novel features being ointed out particularly in the claims at t s end of the specification.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the rear portion of a roll holding camera and the removable back or cover therefor, the camera embodyin spool retaining means constructed in accor ance with the present invention.

Fig. 2 rgpresents a section taken through one end 0 the camera with the back ap' plied thereto showing one of the film spools and the respective retaining means cooperative therewith.

Fig. 3 represents a section 33, Fig. 2; and

Fi 4 is a perspective view of a back provide with spool retaining means of slig tly modified form.

Similar arts are designated by the same reference c aracters in the several views.

The present invention is applicable, generally, to roll holding cameras of the type having compartments for the film spools and a removable back for covering and uncovering such compartment. The preferred embodiments of the invention are shown in the accompanying drawing as applied to a roll holding camera of the foldmg type, but it is to be understood that the invention is not restricted to the precise constructions shown as equivalent constructions are contemplated and will be included within the scope of the claims.

In the present instance 1 designates the casing of the camera which is equipped, as usual, with a lens 2 and bellows 3, and 4 represents the se tum having an opening 5 through which t e film located in rear of the se tum is ex d by light admitted throug the lens in the usual way. Spool compartments 6 and 7 are provided at the on the line ends of the casing at opposite sides of the to enter longitudinally the grooves 12 and exposure opening, these compartments being to hear at their inner ends upon the pivots adapted to contam spools to which the rewhich project from the ends of the spools. spective ends of the sensitized film are at- As shown In Figs. 1, 2 and 3, a pair of minds 5 tached, the intermediate portion of the film or arms 15 are formed on the back by strikstretching across the exposure opening and ing tongues of the metal therefrom and the film being advanced by winding it upon bending such ton es perpendicularly to one of the spools, it corres ondingly unthe back to provi e parallel studs which winding from the other spoo Turning of are spaced appro riatelytoenter the grooves 10 the film winding spool is effected, as usual, 12 when the bac is applied to the casing. '15 by a winding key 8 which is attached to the A similar but single stud or arm 16 is casing and is adapted to cooperate with one formed toward the opposite end of the back, end of one of the spools. The casin is pr this single stud or arm being parallel to the vided with a removable back 9 whic when studs or arms 15, and it is adapted to enter applied to the casing covers the spoql c mthe groove 12 which is opposite to the wind- 80 partments and the lm passageway H1. rear ing key 8, it being unnecessary to provide of the septum 4, and when thl b ck 1 a retaining stud for the groove 12 which moved, the s 001 compartments are unleads to the winding key because the windcovered and 1: us the expos d film may be ing key when coupled to the respective end removed and a fresh film may be insertedof the spool retains that end of the spool 85 The'spool retaining means of the present from dis lacement. invention are adapte for use in connection Instea of forming the s ool retaining with film spools which have pivots 10 proarms directly or integrally from the matejecting axiall from their ends and beyond rial composing the back, as in the preceding the flanges 1 The op osite walls of each instance, such retaining arms may be con- 90 spool compartment are ormed with grooves structed as shown in Fi 4 wherein the reor channe s 12 which lead from the rear taining arms 15 are ormed b the fored of the casing forwardly to substanwardly bent ends of a strip 1 which is tia ly the center of the compartment at formed separately from the back and is which points the grooves terminate to form riveted or otherwise secured thereto, and 95 bearings 13. The coves 12 of each comthe single spool retaining arm 16 is formed partment are paral el with one another and by the forwardly directed end of a strip with the grooves of the other compartment. 18 which is riveted or otherwise secured to This construction permits a spool to be inthe back.

8 troduced into its respective compartment. by According to the present invention, re- 100 inserting its projecting pivots 10 into the moval of the backwithdraws the spool recorresponding grooves 12 and then moving taining arms and it is only necessary to rethe spool forwardly until the pivots 10 on move the exposed film from. its compartment the spool rest in the bearings 13, the spool to unload the camera. The fresh film may being then centered appropriately in its then be inserted and the simple act of re- 10' compartment. placing the cover carries the spool retaining In feeding the film from one spool to the arms into operative position with respect other spool, the film is stretched angularly to the spoo These spool retaining arms across the corners 14 of the septum 4, these which cooperate with the axially projecting corners being ofiset to the rear of the s ools, pivots on the spools sustain the force exert- 110 and the tension on the film acts to p the ed by the tension on the film which tends to spools rearwardly or toward the open ends disp ace the spools, without ofierin undue of the grooves 12. The present invention friction to the advancement of t e film. provides means whereby the spool pivots The back'may be retained on the casing by are retained in the bearings 13 at the forthe usual catches 19. 11

ward orinner ends of the grooves 12 onto- We claim as our invention: matically or by the act of applying the back 1. A camera comprising a casing having to the casing, and the are automatically respool compartments adapted to removably leased when the b is removedatpermitsupport film spools therein, a movable back 7 ting the spools to be removed and are infor the casing adapted to cover-and mova- 120 sorted wit out'requiring separate mani ulasaid compartments, and means carried by tion of the spool retaining means. ese the back and operative automatically to re results are attained by applyingethe spool tain the spools in their respective com artack w reby such ments by movement of the back into osed meanswill be moved to and from operative position. g p 125 positions automatically the insertion and 2. A camera comprising a casing having removal of the back. refer-ably, and as spool compartments adapted toremovably shown, the spool retaining means comprises receive and support film spools therein, a a' suitable number of arms or studs which back movable relatively to the-casing to are attached to the back and are adapted cover and uncover said compartments, and 18.

means operative automatically to retain the spoolsin their respective compartments when the back is moved into position to close such commitments and movable into loii-irtailiiiig position by the movement of the back to uncover such compartments.

3. camera comprising a. casing having spool compartments adapted to removably receive lilm spools, a back movable relatively to the casing to cover and uncover said compartments, and retaininw means for the spools movable automatically into inoperative positions by the movement of the back to uncover said compartments.

4. la a (amt-Pa having a casing provided with compartments to removably receive and l'lllilttllbly support. film spools, and a. lmtb movable to cover and uncover said compartments, spool retaining means carried by said back and movable automatically to retain and release said spools by the respective movements of the back to cover and uncover said compartments.

5. A camera com rising a casing having compartments n'ovlded with pairs of opposite grooves eading inwardly to receive the axially projecting pivots of the film spools, a back movable relatively to the casmg to cover and uncover said compartments and arms carried by the back and movable into said grooves to cooperate with and retain the axially projecting pivots on the spools when the back is moved into position to close said compartments.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto our hands in presence of two subscribing witnesses;

JOSEPH GODDARD. WILLIAM S. HUTCHINGS. Witnesses:

Manoannr WUEsT, Rom POORMAN. 

